Sentence Examples

Not only the workmen and the large class of idlers attracted to Paris by the system, but rentiers and government officials, whose incomes were paid in assignats on a scale arbitrarily fixed by the government, saw themselves threatened with actual starvation.

What is annually saved is as regularly consumed as what is spent, but by a different set of persons, by productive labourers instead of idlers or unproductive labourers; and the former reproduce with a profit the value of their consumption.

Here the local authorities had their offices, justice was administered, traders trafficked, citizens and idlers gathered.

While Johnson was busied with his Idlers, his mother, who had accomplished her ninetieth year, died at Lichfield.

The feeling described in that fine but gloomy paper which closes the series of his Idlers seemed to grow stronger in him as his last hour drew near.